This review takes two key approaches for exploring the theme of food and globalization: first,
how food has been mobilized as a commodity in global production and trade systems and …

Improved cookstoves have been identified in Mexico as a key opportunity to advance
sustainable local development priorities in disadvantaged regions while mitigating climate …

The main trends associated with the economic crisis, neoliberal restructuring, and the
growth of rural poverty rates in Latin America include a continued diversification of rural …

This contribution examines the connections between gender and international migration
around three themes: globalization, national economic development, and governance. First …

In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But
how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults …

Around 30% of global food is produced by smallholder farmers, yet they constitute the most
food-insecure group. In Mexico, food self-sufficiency is declining. Rural policies in the …

Data from Mesoamerican studies shows that the proportion of women registered as 'farm
operators' in fairtrade–organic coffee producer unions has increased significantly. However …

New data and new methods have provided many new insights into rural households in the
past 50 years. We analyze what we have learned from household models since Boserup …

The last decade of the twentieth century was heralded as the 'end of agrarian reform'in
Mexico and the initiation of a new era of market‐led agricultural policy and practice. The …

The authors propose a broad analytic framework for understanding the relationships
between globalization, gender and work. They argue that the way researchers, government …